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Gabled wings (fragments of a polyptych), 2 register, 1 arch across (tabernacle) (Front)
Gabled wings (fragments of a polyptych), 2 register, 1 arch across (tabernacle) (Front)
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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1594

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 169mm
Width: 34mm (inner wing); 38mm (outer wings)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies.
Register 2: two Adoring Magi (part of an Adoration of the Magi scene).
Wings, right
Register 1: Nativity; Virgin holding the swaddled child.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ; Simeon with hands in prayer.

Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd quarter of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two broken hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: haloes, architectural details, lily (green and red).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.Printed label: '408'. Labels with handwritten inscriptions: 'MNK XIII V.394a' and 'MNK XIII V.394b'.

Object Condition
Missing: gables; one of the left wings and centre panel.
Two holes on the outer side of the outer wings.

Comments
The object certainly originally was a tabernacle wrapping around a centre piece featuring the standing Virgin and Child. It is likely that the missing inner left wing featured the Visitation in the upper register and the third adoring magus in the lower register. For an extant example of a tabernacle of this kind, see for instance OA 2587 in the Musée du Louvre.

Provenance
Czartoryski collection (listed in the catalogue of the collection in 1865 in the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; handwritten catalogue 12309, pp. 204-205).


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